वास्तु मण्डन (मण्डन सूत्रधार - गृह, राजप्रासाद, दुर्ग एवं नगर-वास्तु सटीक)

Ch. VII – Dūṣaṇabhūṣaṇāni 169 Maya 8. For a house a column, round-shaped, six, eight or sixteen sided is regarded as auspicious, stone pillars are accepted in a temple and for the houses of Brahmins and Kings. 9. (The stone pillar can be built for ) heretics (Pāṣaṇḍī) also but not for Vaiśya and Śūdra. If it is done out of infatuation then it will be against the principles of virtue, desire and money. As well as 10. Historical and Purāṇic events and their corresponding images are forbidden in a house and it is not considered desirable and aus- picious and which is cursed even among the Gods. 11-12. Frightful, terrible, violent, inauspicious, corrupted pictures, (scenes of) dreadful fights among vultures, purple herons, pigeons, mon- keys etc. should be discarded in the household pictures. There is no welfare in it. Bhoja 13. Those (acts) which are like magical tricks, contradictory deeds and which are dreadful should not be performed in the house. 14-16a. The naked sports of ascetics, witchcraft and likewise, ghosts, goblins, demons, carnivorous birds and animals, deer, bear, tiger, cat, boar, leopard, jackal, hyena, ass, purple heron, camel etc. or nocturnal animals should not be kept in a house or in the garden, as they bring disease, confinements, and loss.